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From: rtyu@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Rafael T Yu)
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Subject: Re: AE 1.6 MB 3.5" drive
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Date: 22 Nov 90 17:38:44 GMT
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In article <201@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>
>    Sorry, my mistake.  I didn't see AE's ad for the advertised "1.6-meg
>floppy drive" until last night.  From the wording of the ad copy, it looks
>like the 1.6-meg density is available ONLY for the GS, and not the 8-bit Apple
>II's.  Since they all use the IWM, I can only conclude that the difference is
>in the operating systems.  Perhaps AE has some sort of GS/OS driver which will
>read the high-density floppies?  Another question:  why is it 1.6 megabytes
>instead of 1.44 megabytes?  I'm not complaining, but shouldn't they just stick
>to the standard format?
>
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 Well, 1.44 meg are the standard for the Macs and not for the GSs.  The Apple
IIgs has no standard yet, so AE will be introducing the standard of 1.6meg for
the GS.   On America Online, there was a chat about how AE would archive (this
was a while ago) the HD capabilities for the drive, seems to me like they
archive it with a ROM upgrade in the drive an a new GS/OS driver.  Just, hope
the upgrade will be shipping soon, I would love to have 1.6meg of disk capacity
on my GS.

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